In 2157 the Turians attacked the human colony Shanxi. To the turians, it was merely a police action against an ignorant species violating Council law; to humanity, it was their first encounter with another intelligent race.Shanxi was a three month battlefield until the Alliance reinforcements arrived. Admiral Kastanie Drescher launched a powerful counteroffensive and evicted the Turians from Shanxi. Fortunately, the Citadel Council then intervened to negotiate a peace and bring the war to an end. From the Council, humans learned of the existence of the Citadel, and that there were many more sentient species in the galaxy who co-existed peacefully. In the end, only six hundred and twenty-three human lives were lost with slightly more turian casualties. The only notable engagements were the turian attack on Shanxi and its subsequent liberation by human forces.

I know, in the First Contact War, the Alliance use the older Berlin class with the red color sheme. But to the time i make this image the only decent model i had was the York class cruiser.

My main gripe with the First Contact War is the fact that the turians lost more men than the humans did, There was around 600 human casualties, And most of them were Civilians on Shanxi or random human non-combatant ships, The turians lost more according to the wiki and all of the turian losses were military, And the turians are still considered honorable and the strongest military, even though they killed a huge number of civilians and the humans thrashed them anyway?

Turians to them the only war is total war as for them losing more they did not expect humans to fight the way they do. Such as attacking weak points and avoiding strong points and responding to the minimal patrol they had with the second fleet they probably believed the ignorant council species ships to fight them there way of dishing out and taking damage. Not the other way around where the Alliance will over whelm the enemy with superior numbers and tactics.

Both sides haveheld back. The Turians destroy the fleet who wanted toopen themassrelay. Then they attack Shanxi with a simple patrol fleet and lost many soldiers due toautomaticdefenseturrets on the planet. Thats why they lost more men as the humans. After they havesuffered hugelosseson the ground,they retreatedinto theorbitand besiegedthe planet.Due to thelack ofsupplyships, GeneralAhern (Ashleys Grandfather)had surrender to theturians.Theturiansbelieved theirenemieswere defeated andwere thencarelessly.In addition,theyran out ofsupplies too,sincethey were dependent ondextrofood. Finally, they weresurprised when theearthfleetentry.

What I was really getting at was the Turian military was still considered the strongest in the galaxy, even though the humans suffered much less military losses, and still took less even with the majority being civilians, than the Turians did, A turian stated that human weaponry was primitive at First Contact, And the Turian military were still considered an honourable military afterwards even after the war, even after the humans humiliated them by evicting them from Shanxi and commited a small attrocity by killing civilians and bombing whole blocks of homes to kill 1 Alliance fireteam, What I mean by this, Is that if the Council didnt prevent the war going into full fruition, or couldnt, The humans would of completely thrashed the Turians.

Even though your own depiction of the First Contact War is amazing, there are still two discrepancies in this picture: the Alliance cruisers and fighters that you've used are from ME3 i.e. in the year 2186. Spacecraft designs in that year are very different when compared to the ones in 2157.

The cruisers and fighters that the Systems Alliance was supposed to used in 2157 are like these below:

Furthermore, this is goes the same with another of your work "All ships move in" where the Alliance cruisers you've used are from ME3 (2186) while the Battle of the Citadel occured in ME1 (2183). However, the only thing you've got it correct is the SSV Normandy SR-1. Here's some of the pictures from ME1 regarding the Alliance cruisers.

I know that problem. I have extracted the cruiser model from Mass Effect 1, but the textures are way too small for Wallpaper i made with 4400x2700 px. I actually work on new textures for the old cruisers so i can use them.Simple fact that i use the ME3 Models, is that they are way better in quality.